Virgin Rebel: Richard Branson in His Own Words
Author(s): Sir Richard Branson
Richard Branson, who has been called "England's most outrageous billionaire," is also one of the world's most successful business leaders. Since the age of 16 when he founded Student magazine, Branson has been creating companies and innovating ways to grow them into the prodigious conglomerate known as the Virgin Group. At the age of 20, Branson founded a mail-order record retailer. Two years later, he built a recording studio where the first artist signed to his Virgin label, Mike Oldfield, recorded "Tubular Bells," the haunting soundtrack to The Exorcist. Decades later, industries as varied as entertainment (Virgin Music), retail (Virgin Megastores), transportation (Virgin Airlines), and telecommunications (Virgin Mobile) all bare Branson's business moniker. For the first time, the most thought-provoking, revealing, and inspiring quotes from Branson are compiled in a single book. Virgin Territory: Richard Branson In His Own Words is a comprehensive guidebook to the inner workings of the Virgin Group chairman and founder. Hundreds of Branson's best quotes, comprising thoughts on business, music, entrepreneurship, politics, exploration, and life lessons, provide an intimate and direct look into the mind of this modern business icon.
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Danielle McLimore is a writer and editor living in Chicago. Agate B2's In Their Own Words series provides collections of thought-provoking, insightful, and inspiring quotes from the most recognizable and respected business leaders of our time.
General Fields
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- : Agate Publishing
- : Agate Publishing
- : 01 July 2013
- : United States
- : 01 September 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sir Richard Branson
- : Paperback
- : 152
